Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS in Singapore

Singapore: Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS was 5.19 1000 ha in 2024. ▬ Flat

Latest (2024)
5.19 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.4%
World rank
207th
of 240 countries
All-time high
5.19 1000 ha
in 2003
All-time low
5.17 1000 ha
in 2001
Years of data
24
2001–2024

Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS in Singapore, 2001–2024

02462001201220242001: 5.2 1000 ha2002: 5.2 1000 ha2003: 5.2 1000 ha2004: 5.2 1000 ha2005: 5.2 1000 ha2006: 5.2 1000 ha2007: 5.2 1000 ha2008: 5.2 1000 ha2009: 5.2 1000 ha2010: 5.2 1000 ha2011: 5.2 1000 ha2012: 5.2 1000 ha2013: 5.2 1000 ha2014: 5.2 1000 ha2015: 5.2 1000 ha2016: 5.2 1000 ha2017: 5.2 1000 ha2018: 5.2 1000 ha2019: 5.2 1000 ha2020: 5.2 1000 ha2021: 5.2 1000 ha2022: 5.2 1000 ha2023: 5.2 1000 ha2024: 5.2 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Singapore recorded 5.19 1000 ha for inland water bodies — area from modis in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 0.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, inland water bodies — area from modis in Singapore peaked at 5.19 1000 ha in 2003 and was at its lowest, 5.17 1000 ha, in 2001.

That places Singapore 207th out of 240 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 5.17 1000 ha 5.17 1000 ha 5.19 1000 ha 9
2010s 5.18 1000 ha 5.17 1000 ha 5.19 1000 ha 10
2020s 5.18 1000 ha 5.17 1000 ha 5.19 1000 ha 5

Countries ranked near Singapore

  1. 204 Cayman Islands 6.51 1000 ha compare
  2. 205 Mayotte 5.5 1000 ha compare
  3. 206 Czechia 5.45 1000 ha compare
  4. 208 Tuvalu 4.87 1000 ha compare
  5. 209 Guam 4.79 1000 ha compare
  6. 210 Grenada 4.75 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is inland water bodies — area from modis in Singapore?
Inland water bodies — area from modis in Singapore was 5.19 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest inland water bodies — area from modis recorded in Singapore?
The highest recorded value was 5.19 1000 ha in 2003.
What is the lowest inland water bodies — area from modis recorded in Singapore?
The lowest recorded value was 5.17 1000 ha in 2001.
How does Singapore rank for inland water bodies — area from modis?
Singapore ranks 207th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
Is inland water bodies — area from modis rising or falling in Singapore?
Over the last ten years it is up 0.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
Where does this Singapore data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Inland water bodies — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.